During this energetic and provocative ebook, feminist public sociologists flip to classical social thinkers--W. E. B. Du Bois, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Émile Durkheim--to comprehend a chain of twenty-first century social traumas, together with the bloodbath at Columbine highschool, the 9-11 assaults, the torture at Abu Ghraib legal, and typhoon Katrina.